After experiencing some 'pains' (because life happens) I turned to blogging for self-therapy. I posted poems and insights and lessons I've learned from every corner. After a year, though, I left it hanging.
I thought, maybe the reason why I was not able to keep any blog for a long time is my lack for motivation. My reason for keeping my blog was for self-therapy, and after I got better I felt no need to pursue it further. In addition, I did not go out of my way to improve my blog so I got bored instantly. This is the reason why I decided to make my second blog--to experience newness and with that is the feeling the need to explore. But that feeling is fleeting.
I decided to have this blog in spite of those ludicrous reasons because, believe it or not, I found some sort of motivation from a computer lab.
Yes, a computer lab.
When our instructor started discussing about blogging, I thought that it was going to be simple. It turns out, my knowledge of blogging is oversimplified. Just like with everything, blogging came from something. It is under what they call a content management system (CMS) which sounded very much IT to my ears. Unlike CMS, where one can make user accounts on a website, a blogging software is limited and could not have that. I wished it could, though, because I was planning to make a blog for our organization's online library. I imagined my orgmates having to log in so they could have access to our materials.
Then we turned to the parts of a blog. It was my first time hearing the words, Blogroll and Blogosphere. My favorite part is when we turned to discussing the templates and how we could customize it. I tried to download and use a customized one, but I still don't know how to further improve this template. The template editor would not allow me to do anything with it.
If you're wondering where motivation rests in there, let me tell you this: I took blogging for granted because I took it as it is--not with all its beginnings and particularities. I did not explore because I feared I would not understand. But because of this session in a certain computer lab, I learned new things about blogging and that made me wanting to know it more.
How? By keeping this up and making it my own.
I thought, maybe the reason why I was not able to keep any blog for a long time is my lack for motivation. My reason for keeping my blog was for self-therapy, and after I got better I felt no need to pursue it further. In addition, I did not go out of my way to improve my blog so I got bored instantly. This is the reason why I decided to make my second blog--to experience newness and with that is the feeling the need to explore. But that feeling is fleeting.
I decided to have this blog in spite of those ludicrous reasons because, believe it or not, I found some sort of motivation from a computer lab.
Yes, a computer lab.
When our instructor started discussing about blogging, I thought that it was going to be simple. It turns out, my knowledge of blogging is oversimplified. Just like with everything, blogging came from something. It is under what they call a content management system (CMS) which sounded very much IT to my ears. Unlike CMS, where one can make user accounts on a website, a blogging software is limited and could not have that. I wished it could, though, because I was planning to make a blog for our organization's online library. I imagined my orgmates having to log in so they could have access to our materials.
Then we turned to the parts of a blog. It was my first time hearing the words, Blogroll and Blogosphere. My favorite part is when we turned to discussing the templates and how we could customize it. I tried to download and use a customized one, but I still don't know how to further improve this template. The template editor would not allow me to do anything with it.
If you're wondering where motivation rests in there, let me tell you this: I took blogging for granted because I took it as it is--not with all its beginnings and particularities. I did not explore because I feared I would not understand. But because of this session in a certain computer lab, I learned new things about blogging and that made me wanting to know it more.
How? By keeping this up and making it my own.
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